Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Have you ever noticed that when you’re hiking or just taking a walk in the woods, you rarely see a dead animal? There are plenty of animals out there, and like everyone else, they die. So why don’t we ever stumble upon their bodies? Is there…

Despite the best of intentions, travelers aren’t always in the clearest…

Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection…

An adopted embryo that was frozen for 30 and a half years has given rise to what some claim is the ‘oldest baby’ in the world.

According to an exclusive scoop from MIT Technology Review’s Jessica Hamzelou, the newborn baby boy was conceived in…

South Africa has launched an innovative anti-poaching campaign, injecting rhino horns with…

Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes.

For the next two months he sings every…

The Tintina fault stretches 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) across northern Canada, crossing the Yukon and ending in Alaska. The fault is thought to have been dormant for 40 million years, but that thinking is challenged by a new study that…

You say potato, I say tomato?

Turns out one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around nine million years ago, according to a new study…